Worst weather in the world

The weather across the world is getting wilder and weirder, causing chaos, death and destruction around the globe

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Funnel cloud forms from a tornado in Turkey's Kastamonu district on August 13, 2016

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MISERABLE: Britain is braced for 70mph winds and heavy rain this weekend

A spokesman for the Met Office said: "When the storm arrives it will still maintain some of that energy [from Hurricane Ophelia] but it means it will be downgraded so it won't be a hurricane by the time it reaches the UK.

"At the moment it looks like it's going to track along the side of the west coast of Ireland and just brushes the edge of Scotland.

"However there will be some pretty strong winds but not huge amounts of rain.

"We are going to see some pretty strong conditions, certainly some gales across the west.

"The only place that escapes the strong weather is the east.

"We are going to import some of that heat, we could still see 22/23C on Sunday - it may creep up on Monday."